Don't bruise that pig! Retro pork-o-ganda comics.

from Ethan Persoff's COMICS WITH PROBLEMS, scans of a midcentury slaughterhouse graphic novelette advocating against animal mistreatment. I mean, well, advocating against inadvertently bruising cows and pigs before you kill 'em for sweet delicious bacon and steaks. I'm so confused.

Regarding the cell above: "Man, what an unfortunate and unintended history reference," says Ethan.

Previously on Boing Boing:
* About that ginormous beef recall